Rescuers were searching the ocean off Florida for survivors after a boat carrying about 30 people – many of them Haitian immigrants seeking to escape their country’s crushing poverty – capsized and sank.

Ji-Yai Shin finished off a successful season today by winning the ADT Championship in West Palm Beach, Florida.

A cruise ship hit by a crippling stomach virus which has made more than 500 people ill was today undergoing yet another disinfection operation.